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Sample of authors
Woodrell, Daniel
The American author Daniel Woodrell was born in Springfield, a town situated in the Missouri Ozarks, a plateau and mountain range on the border between Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. When he was one year old, the family moved to St. Charles near St. Louis, Missouri, where he grew up. When his father got a new job fourteen years later, they transferred to Overland Park in Kansas City. Woodrell...
Literary figures
Morten Martens
Gender: Male
A divorced foreman in a printing works in Trondheim, Norway, with a daughter, an everyday, friendly appearance, and a dream of becoming rich. Morten Martens makes an attempt by printing counterfeit pound banknotes, which results in political unrest internationally, and he has to flee and live under various assumed names. In the books by Fredrik Skagen he often finds himself in trouble on account...